Karuah River Rally

WHEN           10th, 11th &12th of February, 2012

WHERE         Frying Pan Creek Campsite off Frying Pan Road, Chichester State Forest, via Dungog

The BMW TC NSW invites you to its 35th KRR situated in some of the prettiest country surroundings in NSW with some of the State's best riding roads - sealed or unsealed.

The Rally site is about 30 km north of Dungog via the Monkerai and Main Creek Roads between Dungog and Stroud, or the Wangat Trig Road past the Chichester Dam turnoff.  Directions will be signposted from both these roads (each involves14 k of dirt), and a map can be checked at the Bank Hotel, Dungog.

The rally is for motorcyclists only; cars are not permitted unless by prior arrangement.  Cost $25 covers badge and breakfast voucher.

The BMW TC NSW acknowledges the valuable support of Forests NSW in providing us with the Chichester State Forest campsite.  Rally participants are asked to respect and protect this valuable resource, its facilities and access roads.

For more information as it comes to hand, see the sidebar. Click on this link to download a pdf with directions, contact and registrations details, and a map on how to get there

Motorcycle Accident Rehabilitation Initiative (MARI) at St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst

"Riders For Riders"

MARI began in May 2007 withz a  $30,000 donation from a couple of veteran riders who’d never had an accident in 40 years and wanted to pay back. Funds raised amongst fellow-riders by the sale of their retrospective saga Highlights of the Road, were accepted by their local hospital. A special purpose trust fund was set up for  ‘providing rehabilitation services to those injured in motorcycle accidents presenting at St Vincent’s Hospital Emergency Department and to fund efforts to collect and report on patient outcome data for those treated.’ Read more here

UPDATE: Proceeds of Far Cairn Rallies 2008 & 9 financed a hospital research document, which attracted $400,000 funding from the Motor Accident Authority (MAA) NSW for a trial project based on a modified MARI model.  Conducted in St George, Liverpool and Westmead as well as in St Vincent’s Hospital, the two-year study is in the process of identifying ALL injured road users including pedestrians. The two-year study is known as ROARI (Road Accident Rehabilitation Initiative)

Email the Webmaster if you have a great picture or video about BMW motorcycles that you would like to share

Video(s) of the week:

Dakar Rally 2012 - Stage 01 (Highlights) - the first video of the recently finished Dakar. Check out the archive footage of the '79 Paris-Dakar - including an R79. They did it tough in those days!

(Note to continue with this series make sure you type in youTube: "Dakar Rally 2012 - Stage" - there is a lot of footage on the Dakar on youTube and some of it is of poor standard)

Occasionally there comes along something that epitomises, even transcends the world of motorcycling. Check out this video

BMW MOTORRAD from Giorgio Oppici on Vimeo

The recent Capital Rally at Brindebella, west of Canberra as seen through the lens of "havafati", a regular on ADVrider

One from "motobikin1" - Motobikin Jindy to Coffs. Check out at time 0:32 - one of our members... ouch!!

Rider Risk Safety Video series, sponsored by the Motorcycle Council of NSW - well worth a watch for new and experienced riders alike:

Picture(s) of the week:

This lady is not hangin' around - the Webmaster would love to know the background to this picture, including bike type and year if possible - if you know anything, email webmaster@bmwtcnsw.org

12th Jan: We have a winner! Morro, a member of the BMW TC of NSW sent an email with a link, and quoting from this link:

"Marianne Weber, a journalist from Belgium, tested the R68 for the French magazine Motorcycle (issue 81/August 18, 1952) and achieved a top speed of more than 160 km/hr and gave the proof that the R68 was a real 100-mph racing-bike. This photo was made by R.G. Everts in April 1952. Marianne Weber later achieved 162.895 mph (101.24 mph) in 1954".